In this conversation with Anna Stetsenko, we discuss the urgency of engaging education and research in times of socio-environmental crisis. Grounded in the idea of engaged scholarship and a radical transformative stance, we reflect on education as a site of struggle and on the role of academia in advancing social and environmental justice.
Bringing together concerns from both scientific and activist domains, the discussion highlights the complexities and contradictions of engaging in research that is at once rigorous and committed. It reflects on what it means to do academia otherwise — as a form of praxis that confronts educational, environmental, and social justice crises, while imagining and enacting alternative possibilities.
Anna Stetsenko: Professor at City University of New York, Graduate Center. Member of the editorial collective in Mind Culture and Activity: An International Journal.
References:
STETSENKO, A. Pesquisa em tempos de crise e turbulência: ativismo para mudança social [Research during a time of crisis and turmoil: activism for social change]. III Simpósio Nacional Psicologia e Compromisso Social. Instituto Silvia Lane. 2020.
STETSENKO, A. Agência radical-transformadora: continuidades e contrastes em relação à agência relacional e implicações para a educação. [Transformative-radical Agency: continuities and contrasts to relational agency and educational implications] Práxis Educativa, [S. l.], v. 18, p. 1–24, 2023. DOI: 10.5212/PraxEduc.v.18.21106.005. Disponível em: https://revistas.uepg.br/index.php/praxiseducativa/article/view/21016.